Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Despite selling a reported 5 million units in the first weekend of availability, the iPhone 5 has not been judged a complete success. Here's a few pros and cons.
Mozilla aims to make website usernames and passwords obsolete through Persona, an email-address-based authentication system
OpenStack's latest software embraces SDN, marks first release under non-Rackspace legal control
Factory towns in China and Japan reflect the companies' fortunes as they continue to negotiate a landmark deal
Novatel's MiFi Liberate device is first mobile hotspot with touchscreen and will be sold exclusively by AT&T
Google gives wind energy a boost, but tax credit expiration could deliver a major wind industry setback
The hottest new thing in DR are cloud-based services. But are they ready for the enterprise?
Looking to the cloud for DR? Make sure your provider can answer all these questions
Antivirus app for Android expected to be integrated into Sophos mobile-device management
Apple had filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Amazon.com last year
Intel's new Clover Trail chip will appear in tablets from Lenovo, HP, Asus and Samsung
Assange gave a statement via videoconference to a forum at the UN sponsored by Ecuador
AMD's new A10 and A8 chips that can be overclocked are priced between $100 and $150, lower than Intel's competitive offerings
The attack that can wipe data on Samsung devices remotely can also be used to disable SIM cards
The agency, in an October vote, could give AT&T 30MHz of spectrum to deploy LTE
Experts say executive order from President on cybersecurity would not help in instances such as Tuesday's Wells Fargo hack
Telvent's systems are used to control pipelines in North America and Latin America
A deal bringing Amazon search results into an Ubuntu search lens continues to stir debate among users.
Aruba expands access point service, new cloud provisioning service
Big Blue will offer grants for resellers to invest in IBM technology, launch marketing campaigns
Faulty statistical methods and other common errors that can trip up your program
Over half of the bonus total goes to one researcher for reporting two serious vulnerabilities
About 400 users downloaded a backdoored phpMyAdmin installer after a SourceForge mirror in Korea was compromised
Search.xxx is intended to give porn fans a streamlined, private search experience
Hints at early 2013 release for OS and new phones
The ERP vendor will port its software to a variety of open-source middleware and databases, starting with Red Hat, MySQL and MariaDB
Wi-Fi disabled, flakey, slow; forums jammed with complaints
Present in Java 5. 6 and 7, leaves Windows PCs and Macs open to attack
HP crams 4 sockets into a 2-socket server frame
The judge gave the plaintiffs 30 days to file an amended complaint
Names potential successors; COO Moore takes over if Chambers gets 'hit by a bus'
As PCs lose relevance, Microsoft needs to embrace other platforms, report says
Just a few years ago Ellison dismissed cloud computing as a fad, now Oracle's all in
The stores used software to capture screenshots, log keystrokes and take webcam pictures, the FTC alleges
Romania's Radu Dragusin says he has told IEEE, which has addressed the security breach
Mark Hurd and Safra Catz received nearly identical pay packages, each worth $51.7 million
The agency has a role to play in promoting and regulating broadband, Genachowski says
DDR4 DRAM will double the data transfer rate and also read and process information more efficiently
Free educational resources can get a newcomer started on Hadoop or broaden a veteran's skills
On Sunday, former MobileMe users will lose the complementary 20GB Apple gave them earlier
Sunday's riot targeted Foxconn security guards, according to workers
Arab Electronic Army has hacked several sites, and hacktivist group says it will target more
